The two attempt to make up for lost time, spending many hours together over the next few days and we see another side of Hetty as she and Romney tease each other and laugh together, run through the fields, and Romney sketches her smiling, sitting in the grass. At the end of a day spent together, Romney invites Hetty to have dinner with him the next day at the White Sands Hotel. Hetty gets all gussied up and waits- and waits- on the porch for him to pick her up, but he never does. Upset, Hetty goes back into the house, assuming that this was all some elaborate ruse of Romney's, to make a fool out of her once again. The truth is actually quite different.
I've always found this episode of Road To Avonlea to be a little uneven, though it's definitely worth watching. There's lots of humour, especially in the first half; I've often mentioned the amusement I find in watching the reactions of the recurring townspeople- like Mrs. Potts, who is a gleefully malicious gem in every episode she's in. There're some great moments from Rachel as well. Of course, this is a Hetty-centric episode, and it's interesting to see the person Hetty might have been if Romney had been around to tease her out of her overly-fussy ways and keep her from being overbearing by balancing her forceful character with his equally strong one. My biggest criticism is that everything happens too quickly- the wedding, their squabbling and reconciliation, their time spent together, the reveal of Romney's fatal illness, and then he's gone. All of this doesn't have the impact it would have had if they had given the story more time to develop and breathe, maybe spread it over a couple of episodes.
Oh yes, there's also a secondary plotline, about the Avonlea Chronicle being in danger of going under (it usually is) this time because several local advertisers have pulled their support. Olivia attempts- and eventually succeeds- to win these advertisers back. I didn't mention this before because frankly, it's pretty uninteresting and I forgot about it.
Finally, Romney Penhallow is played by Peter Coyote which, come to think of it, may explain why everything had to be stuffed into one episode... they probably couldn't afford to pay him for more than that. I have to say though, that for a modest Canadian show Road To Avonlea did manage to pull in quite a few well known actors to guest star, including Christopher Lloyd, Stockard Channing, Bruce Greenwood, Michael York, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Reeve, and Ned Beatty... to name a few.